This K-Pop Star Looks Just Like Ada Wong and Her Fanbase Can't Unsee the Resemblance

K-pop prima Asa of BABYMONSTER fame is getting compared to Resident Evil’s Ada Wong aft posting selfies sporting an outfit and hairstyle that makes her look strikingly akin to the iconic double-agent.

Ada Wong has a definite style; she’s a badass spy, aft all, truthful she’s gotta look chic. We ne'er drawback our miss lacking, either — whether it’s the sultry bodycon formal from Resident Evil 2 oregon the turtleneck from Resident Evil 4, she knows however to enactment an outfit.

She’s thing if not consistent, though, ever boasting a abbreviated bob with broadside bangs and wearing immoderate shadiness of heavy red. That’s why, erstwhile Asa — the main rapper of K-pop radical BABYMONSTER — posted photos with a akin look, fans instantly started comparing the two.

She uploaded the selfies to the authoritative BABYMONSTER assemblage connected Weverse, a societal media hub for K-pop fans created by HYBE, the genitor institution of BTS' grounds label. It didn’t instrumentality agelong for fans of some the set and the Resident Evil games to spot the similarities betwixt them, sparking a question of comments like, “Asa Wong,” successful a clever portmanteau of their names.

“Asa, you are truthful overmuch similar Ada Wong, it’s insane. If you person a PS4 oregon PS5, spell play Resident Evil 4 Remake!” 1 instrumentality remarked.

“Are you Ada Wong?” different commented.

Image Credits: ASA, BABYMONSTER - WEVERSE

These are conscionable a fewer of the oodles of comments Asa has received since posting the vampy pics, and they aren’t the archetypal ones to spark comparisons to Ada. Back successful March, photos of the rapper surfaced showing her with a abbreviated bob and a achromatic choker necklace, prompting fans to make endless side-by-side graphics with screenshots of Ada wearing her formal successful Resident Evil 2 Remake.

Thus far, Asa has not publically remarked connected her resemblance to the beloved Resident Evil character, though that hasn’t stopped fans from begging her to bash a cosplay oregon adjacent represent Ada Wong successful a live-action film.

Unfortunately for Ada stans, it doesn’t look similar she’ll beryllium making an quality successful the upcoming Resident Evil movie directed by Zach Cregger, which comes to theaters this September. Cregger has made it abundantly wide that his movie tells a antithetic communicative alternatively than creating a 1:1 adaptation of the games; determination volition beryllium nary large cameos from beloved characters (at least, not that we cognize of), with the movie alternatively pursuing an mean joe arsenic helium navigates the chaos that befalls Raccoon City successful a much modern setting.

Cregger told america arsenic overmuch successful an interrogation astatine San Diego Comic-Con 2026. "I americium not trying to accommodate a video game. I'm not utilizing the characters from the games. I'm not telling a communicative that the games archer due to the fact that I'm not going to beryllium capable to bash it amended than the games. The games are truthful good executed, and to me, Leon and Claire and these characters, they beryllium truthful perfectly successful the games that anyone I formed and immoderate quality that I bash with them would be, probably, to the detriment of what I was trying to do."

Image Credits: ASA, BABYMONSTER - WEVERSE / CAPCOM

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